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  2. Sea Life Sunshine Coast - Wikipedia

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    A moving walkway in an 80-metre (260 ft) shark tunnel under the 2,500,000-litre (660,000 US gal) oceanarium takes visitors past several viewing windows, with fish swimming all around the walkway. The exhibit includes three separate habitats: coral reef, cave and open ocean.

  3. Aquatic locomotion - Wikipedia

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    This is because temperature not only affects the properties of the water, but also the organisms in the water, as most have an ideal range specific to their body and metabolic needs. Q10 (temperature coefficient) , the factor by which a rate increases at a 10 °C increase in temperature, is used to measure how organisms' performance relies on ...

  4. Mooloolah River National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Mooloolah River National Park is a nationally protected area located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.It covers an area of 830.9 hectares and is bordered by the Mooloolah River to the east, Claymore and Dixon Roads to the west, and the Lower Mooloolah River Environmental Reserve to the south.

  5. Winter swimming - Wikipedia

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    The chlorine added to water in swimming pools and the salt in seawater allow the water to remain liquid at sub-zero temperatures. Swimming in such water is significantly more challenging and dangerous. The experienced winter swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh swam near the North Pole in −1.7 °C (28.9 °F) water and suffered a frostbite injury in his ...

  6. Whale watching - Wikipedia

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    However, the whale meat market has collapsed, and in Japan the government subsidizes the market through distribution in schools and other promotion. In 1997, 2,000 tonnes of whale meat were sold for $30m – a 10-tonne minke whale would thus have been worth $150,000. There is no agreement as to how to value a single animal although its true ...

  7. Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Five species of seals (harp seals, gray seals, harbor seals, hooded seals, and ringed seals), and numerous whale species swim in the waters of Stellwagen Bank. [3] Whale watchers frequently can see humpback whales, minke whales and fin whales and occasionally sight of one of the most critically endangered whale species, the North Atlantic right ...

  8. Physiology of underwater diving - Wikipedia

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    Baleen whales range in size from the 6 m (20 ft) and 3,000 kg (6,600 lb) pygmy right whale to the 31 m (102 ft) and 190 t (210 short tons) blue whale. When swimming, baleen whales use their forelimb flippers in a wing-like manner similar to penguins and sea turtles for locomotion and steering, while using their tail fluke to propel themselves ...

  9. Swimming with dolphins - Wikipedia

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    The popularity of swimming with dolphins increased in the 1980s and 1990s, occurring in over 65 countries, [1] both as a form of therapy as well as a tourist activity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Proponents of dolphin-assisted therapy (DAT) say that interacting with dolphins can help to treat mental and physical disorders in humans, but there is limited ...

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